So we're in agreement, right? > When you understand the trick, it stops being magic. The only argument I've seen about the difficulty of general AI is that we

So we're in agreement, right? > When you understand the trick, it stops being magic. The only argument I've seen about the difficulty of general AI is that we don't presently know how to do it. But it only seems difficult (like magic) because of our lack of comprehension. Maybe it actually is, but the good odds are that like everything else it's just one or a couple of tricks, and once we put the pieces together we'll be moving just as fast.